SURVIVORS BUILDING
LOVE & POWER
Rethinking how survivors of men’s violence drive change.
What is Survivors Building Love & Power?
We organise survivors, their loved ones, and everyone who wants to help make the world safer and fairer. That includes people standing alongside survivors today, and those carrying the love and memory of someone who did not survive.
If you want to make change so others don’t have to suffer the way you or people you love have, you’re in the right place.
This Galentine's Day, we launched our new report, Survivors Building Love & Power. It explores how survivors can be supported not just to recover, but to shape policy, influence law, and build change together. At its heart is a belief that survivors should be involved in shaping the systems that affect their lives.
We build political power for survivors
85% of survivors who volunteer tell us that their primary motivation is to make sure what happened to them doesn't happen to other people. We want to make the world safer and fairer for the survivors who come after us...
This is where organising comes in…
At this moment, an estimated 2.3 million women are experiencing domestic abuse in the UK. Despite the scale, our systems to deal with it are minimal and ineffective.
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Three out of five women who get to the point of asking to come to a shelter are turned away for lack of space.
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Charitable donations to a single donkey charity in the south west of England outranked all donations to charities fighting violence against women and girls across the UK.
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Even at the most generous estimates, we can see hundreds of thousands of survivors don’t engage in any formal service to support them at all
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Currently survivors and their loved ones’ voices are left entirely unheard - and our political power is unorganised.
WE NEED SURVIVORS LIKE YOU!
We know that survivors, far from being a small and ineffective group, are a huge number of people managing budgets, strategising about how to keep themselves and their children safe, and planning for better futures.
We need survivors and their loved ones turning up at meetings deciding local budgets to keep services open.
We need survivors and their loved ones building better systems for folks going through abuse.
Want to join us?
There are a few ways to be part of what we’re building.
SEND LOVE
Send an online postcard to share something you love about a survivor in your life, or something you wish someone had told you when you were going through it.
Many people also use this space to honour someone they’ve lost. These messages help remind people that they are seen, valued, and not alone.
BUILD POWER
Join us for a one-hour online training where we’ll share our plans to change the systems that fail survivors and how you can get involved in building something better together.
You don’t need to have all the answers, or even be sure how you fit yet. If this sounds meaningful to you - we want to meet you.
If there’s a change you know you want to make - we’re doing a listening campaign from February 2026 to February 2027 to hear about policy changes that would make a difference to you.
Many of our members tell us they just want to make sure no one else goes through what they went through...
If that’s you, Love & Power want to meet you - because we are building a home for exactly this.
We need survivors and their loved ones shaping local budgets, protecting services, and organising for better systems for those experiencing abuse now.
Again and again, we hear the same thing: “I’ve always wanted to turn this pain into power - and make the world better for other people - but no one has made space for that.”
We’re here to change that.
Support
Organisations offering support
We know this is hard and can bring up tough feelings and memories.
We exist to change systems, and we don’t do individual casework outside of systemic campaigning (although we’re building work to do this and hope to launch it in time!
In the meantime, if you need legal or emotional support, there are many amazing organisations that can offer you specialist care.
Rights of Women provide women with the legal advice and information they need to understand and use the law and their legal rights
Survivors Trust has 129 member organisations based in the UK & Ireland which provide specialist support for all genders who have survived rape, sexual violence, or childhood sexual abuse. This link allows you to search for support in your area
Women's Aid provides care for women experiencing all forms of domestic abuse.
Rape Crisis supports victims and survivors of sexual abuse
Survivors UK offers support for men who have experienced sexual abuse
Southall Black Sisters supports Black and racially minoritised women who are facing all forms of gender based violence and abuse
Karma Nirvana supports victims of so-called 'honour based' abuse